Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

The writer is a United States Marine Corps officer who wrote these words after reflecting on his experience of leading Marines during three very difficult combat deployments in Iraq, including an exceptionally arduous and grueling tour in Ramadi in 2004. He joined the Marines and led a forty-man infantry platoon during his 3 combat tours.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

As well as successful "poster" cities, there are also equally useful examples of what not to do, such as Athens in 2004, which had a badly managed process and unnecessary facilities, and Beijing in 2008, which had extravagant facilities with limited after-use. Both extremes are instructive to current bidders.

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Sports Construction Analysis Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In 2008, when the Harvard Business School case study was written on the launch two years earlier of the PlayStation 3, the question was whether it was “game over” for Sony. And as Sony and Microsoft each released a new console last week, the latest battle for gamers’ dollars is finally here.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Imagine the power of having a set of three case studies to hand out but only sharing the one that is of most interest to your online audience. Rather than making an educated guess and making the choice for them, what about polling the audience and asking them which case study is of most interest? About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Very early in my first year of business school, we were discussing whether an executive in a case study was to blame for a problem in his company and whether fixing it was his responsibility. In 2004, Leidich, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Many of us were conflating the two terms: fault and responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Case study #1: Focus on solving problems, not getting promoted. Case study #2: Take any leadership opportunity you can get. In 2004, he started a nonprofit in Baltimore. "It Exert authority where you don''t have any — use influence to prove your leadership chops. It was a great laboratory," he says. "It

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

Case Study #1: Create an environment conducive to listening. In 2004, Mike Colwell was promoted to manage a team of five directors, all of whom he’d worked with previously. Case Study #2: Don ’t let personality traits get in the way. He made it a priority to bring them together in one cohesive unit.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Case Study #1: Using multiple mentors. Without the advice and help of her mentors, Soki thinks she would've taken one of the many job offers she had in 2004 and would still be in the telecom field, rather than pursuing her dream. Case Study #2: When you think you don't need it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. ” Case Study #2: Determine what you want out of the experience.

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